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The recipes (over 100) are divided into seven sections: ”Brightness, Bitterness, Saltiness, Sweetness, Savoriness, Fieriness and Richness.” Each of these chapters adds another layer of flavor and gives home cooks more tools to add to their cooking to boost flavor and enjoyment. Brightness includes recipes like Roasted Butternut Squash and Pomegranate Molasses Soup, Spareribs in Malt Vinegar and Mashed Potatoes, and Lemon-Lime Mintade. Bitterness offers up Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad, Sweet Potato Honey Beer Pie and Chocolate Miso Bread Pudding.
He writes about the chemical makeup of the aromas of food plus the importance of the aroma. From personal experience, the aromas in our kitchen always alert Carol when something in my cooking attempts goes wrong. For me, aroma is one of the things that connects us to the foods of our childhood, the foods we grew to love.
I was in our yard this week, helping my daughters build a snow fairy to guard the fort theyâd been working on over the weekend. It was nearly 5 p.m. and I noticed how the sun lingered at the treetops, splashing warmth on to our yard. Inside, I found an email from Farm Girl Seedlings, announcing pre-orders for plants will be available soon. Starting to feel like spring, I texted a friend. She sent back a photo from her dog walk, piles of snow and a frozen lake. Spring, she responded.
OK, fine, I may be slightly overeager for warmer days and blooming trees and dinner outside again â maybe even in the vicinity of friends?! Which is why Iâm dedicating this monthâs space to books that, if they canât get us outside and into the yard any quicker, can at least help us to prepare.
Turmeric-Spiced Dal (Kathy Gunst)
Turmeric with its brilliant golden-yellow color and floral, warming, slightly musky taste is one of the primary flavors in Indian and Southeast Asian cooking. It is what gives curry powder its bright yellow color and has been used as both a spice and a medicinal herb in India for thousands of years.
Recently turmeric has become one of the darlings of the food world. Turmeric tea, turmeric milk, turmeric lattes, smoothies and turmeric-spiced foods of all kinds are featured on menus and in packaged foods.
DJ Rekha, a New York City-based DJ and cultural producer of South Asian descent, recently spoke with me about the spice.